The Drive Shack experience is an extremely complex series of processes running in tandem with each other. Specialized hardware was used to gain insights and provide accurate insights for calculating essential data such as the Golf ball’s trajectory.

The MDS team created several custom APIs to interface with various assets to ensure the player receives the best possible experience with Drive Shack.

• Tracking

  Drive Shack uses sophisticated hardware which precisely tracks swing speed, ball speed, apex height, spin rates and distances. This data is relayed to a server to be processed and utilized effectively for simulations and gamification.

• Modelling

  The MDS team utilized the Unity engine to recreate several Driving Ranges virtually and added many types of arcade elements such as Aliens, Monsters, BlackJack cards into the environment. This would allow players to have many different experiences within the same driving range. These arcade elements feature different scoring mechanisms and have differing impacts on gameplay.

• Gamification

  MDS gathered the simulation data and coalesced the same with their 3D models to provide a true to life Golfing experience. In addition to the standard Golf scoring and playing modes, several Arcade elements were added. 3D monsters and other elements were added to the simulation. This resulted in the player swinging the club and striking the Golf ball physically, with a virtual representation of the same + added arcade elements being shown the player via a display.